Humour

[nuriaobradors]

No: HPFGUIDX 40527

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "nplyon" <nplyon at y...> wrote:
> > > What are everyone's favourite funny parts in HP? > 
> > >
> >  Rosie 

So many!!

I love each and every inspired Molly Weasley moments. Adding to the 
religion-in-HP debate, she looks a total "idishe mame" to me.

I totally cracked up when Malfoy said to the polyjuice!Crabbe or 
Goyle, not sure: if you were any slower, you'd be going backwards.

McGonagall's part when she meets the students after their first 
Trelawney experience and aks Okay, who is going to die this year 
then, or something like that, and later tells Harry he doesn't need 
to hand homework in if he dies. 

Mariuca wrote:

>>I have only read the books in the Romanian translation so far: many 
of the names were translated as well (probably for the readers to 
better grasp the clues about the characters' personality), including 
Voldemort and Malfoy.<snip>
I nevertheless think that the translations lack the "flavour" of the 
originals. I am a translator, too, and the way I'd have done it would 
have been to give the meanings in a footnote and preserve the 
original names.

Okay, I live in Argentina so my mother tongue is spanish, but I only 
read PoA in spanish (before I bought the british version!). The names 
weren't translated. This is common, we usually don't translate 
foreign names. If their meaning is crucial to the story, though, foot 
notes are used to explain it. As the italian say: "traduttore, 
tradittore" (Translator, traitor).
The charms aren't translated either; it would be silly since spanish 
derives from latin! 
But I present you with some names in spanish I do remember:
Moony: Lunático. Means Lunatic.
Wormtail: Gusarapo. Means small worm or small critter.
Padfoot: Canuto. This is nonsense. a 'canuto' is a small tube or a 
blowpipe.
Prongs: Cornamenta. Means Antlers or horns.
Death Eaters: Mortífagos. Is an acurate yet pretentious translation, 
IMO. It means mortiphagous. Pretty scientific, eh?
Maybe some other spanish-speaking listee who HAS read all the books 
can give some feedback on this issue? 

Nuri

Off to lunch